Text and photos by VINCENT GO
THE Chinese New Year is considered the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar. The first day of the Lunar New Year falls on Monday, Jan. 23, which has been declared a public holiday. This means it’s going to be a long weekend, the perfect time for ordinary citizens to get a chance to visit Manila’s Chinatown and join the celebrations.
Text, photos and video by Vincent Go.
BARELY a week after the Feast of the Black Nazarene, thousands of devotees flocked to the Sto. Niño de Tondo Parish, bearing images of the Child Jesus to have them blessed.
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
AMID chants of Viva Pit Senyor! (or Long live the Christ child!), about a hundred thousand devotees of the Holy Child joined Saturday’s grand foot procession in Cebu City--- the eve of the Feast of the Sto. Niño.
By KARLOS MANLUPIG
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley—A loud cracking sound followed by waves upon waves of clay, timber and rocks roused sleeping residents in a poor small-scale mining community in Sitios Diat 1 and 2 in Barangay Napnapan, Pantukan, Compostela Valley before dawn of Jan. 5.
Shortly after, more than 50 houses would be buried in rubble, leaving residents who survived the nature’s onslaught in shock.
Text and photos by VINCENT GO
IT was the longest procession to date in the history of Quiapo Church’s centuries-old Black Nazarene.
It took almost 22 hours for the life-size wooden sculpture of a dark-colored Jesus carrying the cross to return to church after leaving the Quirino Grandstand at the Rizal Park Monday morning. It was already quarter past 5 a.m. of Tuesday when it entered Quiapo Church as millions of devotees who believe the icon to be miraculous participated in the annual feast of the Black Nazarene.
By ERWIN MASCARIÑAS
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – After the shock and the tears, people here and in Iligan City are starting to pick up the pieces and rebuild their lives two weeks after tropical storm Sendong ravaged their homes and their land.
Lack of sufficient water supply, electricity and other basic necessities, did not stop the survivors of Sendong from moving on.
BY ERWIN MASCARIÑAS
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Floodwaters brought by storm “Sendong” swept Cagayan de Oro and Iligan city and other parts of Central Mindanao while people were sleeping Friday night last week.
By LALA ORDENES Photos by Mario Ignacio THEY didn’t have the tsunami walk of Miss Universe third runner-up Shamcey Supsup.Their legs were not as long, their bodies not as lean.
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
ARISTON Dawang Jr does not take the strings of floods brought about by typhoons sitting down.
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
IT was a night away from the” immoral” taunts, discrimination and homophobia that has haunted every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender at least once.
